When you read about or hear former chief justice Roy Moore speak, do you get a little creepy feeling? Moore would have been so much happier -- and make a lot more sense -- if he'd been born 250 years ago.

Moore quotes Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as if they were here today. Or, worse, as if we should be living as they did back then. I don't think most of us really want an 18th-century lifestyle. The United States in the late 1700s was not exactly the lap of luxury. (Apple hadn't even come out with the iTelegraph yet.)

Moore sounds like he's running for president of the U.S. in 1812 rather than chief justice of Alabama in 2012. And remember, he's running for the position he was kicked out of in disgrace in 2003 because he refused to follow a higher court's ruling to remove his obscene monument of the Ten Commandments.

How could Moore expect anybody to follow his own rulings if he doesn't respect higher court rulings himself? And now we're about to give this dishonored man another shot a chief justice? Moore had his shot, and it backfired and embarrassed Alabama. Shame on us for going that route again.

In a recent campaign stop in Gardendale, Moore paraphrased Thomas Paine: "These are certainly times that try the soul of our nation."

Moore is telling us that? We're the ones who likely will have to put up with his embarrassing shenanigans as chief justice of Alabama for the next six years -- or until he gets thrown out of office again.

"We've got to get back to the Constitution, back to the acknowledgement of God," Moore told the gullible group in Gardendale.

OK. Which is it, Mr. disgraced judge? Constitution or God. Because we have separation of church and state, you see, and, uh, that's the Constitution.

What can we expect with a Moore redux?

Well, not that he has any say in it, but Moore said he believes the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is unconstitutional. Hello! Judge Roy! The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the ACA is, indeed, constitutional. That makes it, uh, constitutional.